Year 1

Welcome to Year 1

Welcome to Year One’s page where you’ll be able to find out about all the exciting learning adventures we’ve been having. You can find our weekly homework here on this page, along with lots of links to websites that we use in class to support our learning.

This year children in Year One are taught by myself, Mr Ellis, with support from our incredible teaching assistants Mrs Shahid, Miss Martin, Mrs Abdalqader, and Mrs Sadiq. We will also be enjoying regular Forest School sessions with the amazing Miss Wilding.

Children in Year One follow the National Curriculum (2014) and an outline of the topics we cover through the year can be found here: Year 1 Curriculum Map 2018-19

The curriculum expectations for children in Year One can be found here.

For the most up to date news and information about what’s happening in Year One please follow us (and leave us feedback) on twitter – if you’re not sure how to set up an account just come and see me in class and I’ll be more than happy to help:

Updates about what’s going on in class, particularly related to specific children and their achievements, are also often shared through the Class Dojo website/app. Most parents are already signed up to this and are hopefully enjoying using it, but please come and see me in class if you need any help with getting set up.

Also, why not check out our class’ blog archives to see what we’ve been up to in the past. Our blog is no longer updated but we hope you enjoy finding out about some of the fun projects we’ve worked on:

Useful Apps and Online Resources

There’s dozens of great apps that we use in school. Here’s a short list of a few of the most commonly used apps in Year One:

General
Book creator
Pic Collage
Scratch Jr

English
Twinkl Phonics
Twinkl spell pop
Writing wizard
Hairy Letters

Maths
Math Duel
Reading Number
Counting Dots

There’s also tons of links to resources and games you can play on PCs and laptops right here on this very page! These online resources are used throughout the year in class. Some of them may not link to our current topics and may be beyond your child’s abilities at present, but hopefully you’ll find something appropriate (and enjoyable) here.

It’s also well worth exploring the Oxford Owls website (oxfordowl.co.uk) which has a broad range of free e-books for younger readers of varying abilities.

If you have any suggestions for other resources that you or your children are enjoying using please share them – there’s so much on offer nowadays, and it’s changing so fast, that suggestions are always welcome.

Supporting Your Child at Home

Here are a few ‘How to…’ documents that will hopefully be useful in supporting your child with their work in Year One:

Homework

Homework is set each Friday and should be returned in the plastic wallet (so we can send home the next week’s work) by the following Friday. Spellings are sometimes included on the weekly homework sheet and these words have been chosen as they include the phonemes (sounds) that we will have been practising during our daily phonics sessions.